Citation

Han M, Cao L, Anton K. Community Ment. Health J. 2014; 51(1): 63-70.

Affiliation

School of Social Work, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, 95192, USA, meekyung.han@sjsu.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10597-014-9745-4

PMID

24989961

Abstract

Vietnamese Americans are at high risk for developing mental health disorders due to multiple risk factors such as trauma and acculturative stress. However, the utilization of mental health services has been low. The pilot project Tam An was implemented to raise mental health awareness by engaging community resources in the Vietnamese population. Informed by the Community Readiness Model and through local ethnic media sources, messages to destigmatize mental health and promote the willingness to initiate mental health treatment were presented. Using an exploratory perspective, findings from focus group data suggest that the project improved the community's stage of readiness.

Language: en